There’s a more than a week to go until Halloween and you need costume ideas! Rest assured, you have come to the right place. The costumes in this section will amaze you. Even more so when you realize they are all homemade and constructed in less than a month.
Perhaps you are looking for a family group costume. Check out the Beetlejuice family or the Flinstones family (you won’t believe the car they created).
Maybe you’re going for a stand-alone homemade costume? Check out the peacocks, LEGO people and superheros. In addition you will find Cleopatra, Jack Skellington and ET. The best part is, there are instructions on how to design and put together these incredibly realistic costumes.
If you are really stuck for DIY costume ideas, you should probably turn to your favorite food! Learn how to make slurpees, burgers, funnel cakes and churros.
Have fun browsing through this section. Let your creativity wander over the pages and please share your homemade creation with us here!
This costume was a lot of fun to create! I made the shorts myself and then glued peppermints on to that. I had the red top and used red fabric to sew on it and then glued peppermints onto the red fabric. The hardest part was creating the shorts. Using a sequin fabric is tough … Read more
My 12 year old daughter decided this was her last year to go trick-or-treating and wanted to be a Hermit Crab. I looked and looked for shell ideas but did not find any that we liked, so we set out on a very long journey filled with tons of mistakes! We started out with 1” … Read more
This year I decided to make my 4 year olds Halloween costume. He loves the movie UP and when looking at different ways people have made the costume I decided to being as much as possible from the movie into this one costume. I made the house from foam board and cardboard. The only thing … Read more
I started making my 2 year old Jedi costume. Once the adults saw it everyone wanted a costume. 8 people later we had Obiwan Kinobe, Darth sidious, Darth Maul, Ahsoka, queen amadala, queen Amadala celebration gown princess lea, and Luke Skywalker. All made by hand, every detail. We couldn’t walk any where with out lines … Read more
I decided I wanted to be Ursula for Halloween this year. I am an idea girl and not a seamstress, so I had to enlist my talented mother to sew for me. She’s able to take my words and terrible drawings and create my visions. We did a simple extra long tube dress out of … Read more
I couldnt find a mermaid costume that I thought was cute and affordable, so I decided to make it myself. First I bought a nude bandeu bra top. Then I bought the foam sea shell bra and pearl beads. I colored the white foam shell with purple colored pencils, after that I put sparkles all over … Read more
I actually found a similar costume on your website from 2010 and tweaked it. My girls wore it last year and again this year for their school party. We started with wire from Home Depot and shaped the wings…we connected the middle sections with a wooden dowel and lots of electrical tape. I then cut some … Read more
7 year old, growing William Joel (born with spina bifida) owns a very special Nascar Dale Earnhardt jacket that surely will NOT fit him next year so this Halloween I decided to make him a wheelchair costume to match his speedy personality & his special jacket. I first measured huge pieces of cardboard to fit … Read more
My 9 year old son decided he wanted to be a minion for halloween this year. I saw the paper mache minion costumes and thought they looked nice but I have no paper mache skills. A man posted a great trash can minion costume and I decided to give it a try. I found the … Read more
I absolutely love Disney, and once Wreck-It Ralph came out I knew I wanted to be Vanellope. My boyfriend pretty much goes along with my ideas so he agreed to Ralph. :] I also like to be original and I was glad that there were not any Ralph costumes available in the Halloween stores. Not … Read more
My grandson wanted to be Buzz lightyear and I set out to make him a Buzz different than most Buzz lightyear costumes. I didn’t want it to be just out of material, I wanted to have him feel like he really was Buzz so I decided to make it three dimensional which was by far … Read more
I wore this vegas showgirl costume to local casino costume night. I was asked for lots photos and ppl said it looked like the real thing. I took silver fabric made simple skirt. took a bra with sequins added a belly dancer necklace to it. took tiara hot glued ostrich feathers for the head … Read more